You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.